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Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO. Priors: ABC White House & China correspondent, CNN, NY Sun 🇺🇸🇦🇺josh@joshgerstein.com. DM for signal

Sep 29, 2020, 6 tweets

Long-awaited hearing in Michael Flynn case is underway by video before Judge Emmet Sullivan. It's been 54 weeks since the parties went before him. Last big ruling in the case came last month from en banc DC Circuit politi.co/3jyuTIS

Judge says issue isn't whether case should proceed to sentencing. "Sentencing has already commenced," Sullivan notes. Such hearing took place in December 2018 and was continued...

OK BIG: Judge says Flynn 'elected not to fully cooperate with the government' last year. Flynn's position is that he did cooperate and the government decided to drop him as a witness at his business partner's trial

Sullivan again calls Gleeson a 'retired federal judge.' He's a former federal judge. Did not retire. Just quit.

Judge just declared a 25-minute recess due to technical issues and massive reverb. Just before the break, Flynn lawyer Sidney Powell indicates she doesn't agree with several points in judge's lengthy summary of the sides' arguments.

'I do have a number of objections I'd like to put on the record when we return,' Powell says. [I bet the claim he failed to cooperate last year is one. DOJ hasn't even really argued that.]

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